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Norwegian Americans ( Norwegian: Norskamerikanere) are Americans with ancestral roots in Norway. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the latter half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century.
The vast majority of Americans of Nordic or Scandinavian ancestry, however, are descended from immigrants of the 19th century. This era saw mass emigration from Scandinavia following a population increase that the region's existing infrastructure could not support. Many prevailing traditions observed by Nordic and Scandinavian Americans are ...
Norwegian or Norse Vikings [ 30] raided and settled in Shetland, Orkney, Ireland, Scotland, and northern England. In the United Kingdom, many names for places ending in - kirk, - ness, - thorpe, - toft and - by are likely Norse in origin. [ 31] In 947, a new wave of Norwegian Vikings appeared in England when Erik Bloodaxe captured York.
Valdemar Knudsen – (1819–1898) sugar cane plantation pioneer on west Kauai, Hawaii. Cleng Peerson – (1783–1865) Norwegian-born pioneer who led the first group of Norwegians to emigrated to the United States. James M. Wahl – (1846–1939) Norwegian-born settler and the first legislator of Lincoln County, South Dakota.
In the 1500s and 1600s there was a small scattering of Norwegian people and culture as Norwegian tradesmen moved along the routes of the timber trade. [2] The 19th century wave of Norwegian emigration began in 1825. The Midwestern United States, especially the states of Wisconsin and Minnesota, was the destination of most people who left Norway ...
ISO 639-3. –. Glottolog. None. IETF. no-US. American Norwegian ( Norwegian: amerikansk norsk) is a koiné dialect of Norwegian spoken by Norwegian-Americans . While American Norwegian is not archaic in its use of grammar, its lexicon can be described as slightly archaic. [1] [2]
The first documented use of the phrase "United States of America" is a letter from January 2, 1776. Stephen Moylan, a Continental Army aide to General George Washington, wrote to Joseph Reed, Washington's aide-de-camp, seeking to go "with full and ample powers from the United States of America to Spain" to seek assistance in the Revolutionary War effort.
Norway is a founding member of the United Nations (UN), the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Council of Europe and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA). Norway issued applications for accession to the European Union (EU) and its predecessors in 1962, 1967 and 1992, respectively.